Installing Drupal

In the installation instructions this tells how to create a cron task - when you access the unix server on a command line

I just installed Drupal, and found the documentation in Install.txt to be quite confusing. Obviusly it's written more for UNIX-geeks with direct access to the server than for me, and not suitable for my situation/setup.

I download to my PC and unpack with WinZip. Then I upload to my service provider, and use PHPmyAdmin to set up the database.

In the spirit of Drupal, I'll not going to complain more about this, but try to write a install.txt more suited for those in my situation. Since I'm not techproficient I'm sure this can be done better, but take it as a starting point.

1. DOWNLOAD DRUPAL

You can obtain the latest Drupal release from http://drupal.org/ http://drupal.org/project/releases.
Download the current tar.gz format [Redundant - Thats the only format present] and extract the files:

$ wget http://drupal.org/drupal/drupal-x.x.x.tgz
$ tar -zxvf drupal-x.x.x.tgz

Unzip it.

This will create a new directory drupal-x.x.x/ containing all
Drupal files and directories. MoveUpload the contents of that directory
into a directory within your web server's document root or your
public HTML directory:

$ mv drupal-x.x.x/* drupal-x.x.x/.htaccess /var/www/html

2. CREATE THE DRUPAL DATABASE [This step tripped me bad]

[Delete all text and replace with:]

I've installed 4.4.2 and I now want to install two modules fscache & filestore2 but there are lacking in documentation.
How do you install these modules.

From what I can see in the files I think I need to copy the sql into the database and move fscache.module & filestore2.module into /modules

But in both folders there are sub-folders of "po".
What are you meant to do with these files?

I've looked around the site and googled but can not find any instructions on how to do this. If some one could help...

Thanks
James

I've done everything I can think of and followed the installation instructions as carefully as I could but when I go to my website I still get this message:

unable to select database

My gut is that it's something with the way I created the database or the permissions set in mySQL, but I'm not sure where to go from here.

Thanks in advance for any help.

warning: stat failed for (errno=2 - No such file or directory) in /var/www/html/modules/image/image.module on line 1157.
warning: Division by zero in /var/www/html/modules/image/image.module on line 1242.
warning: Division by zero in /var/www/html/modules/image/image.module on line 1244.

Hello everyone,

Would someone kindly point me in the right direction to fix the image module problems? I'm not sure what is incorrect with the configuration or if the module indeed works. I've never been able to get it to work.

usr/bin/convert = path to convert

Hello all,

I'm installing Drupal 4.4.2.
My hoster runs mySQL 3.23.49
PHP 4 is enabled

I've managed to set up a site, and a few modules. I can post, log in as another user, etc... however, in certain circumstances, I lose all formating for the page, and the url looks something like this :
http://www.namiki.ouvaton.org/www.namiki.ouvaton.org/

This happens in particular after I've logged out from my administrative account.